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She first drew international attention with Whale Rider<\/a>, a small, community-rooted drama that became a global phenomenon and earned Keisha Castle-Hughes<\/a> an Oscar nomination. Caro followed with North Country<\/a> (2005) for Warner Bros.<\/a>, The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife<\/a> (2017) for Focus<\/a>, and then the biggest leap of her career: Directing Disney\u2019s live-action Mulan<\/a> (2020), which was shot across continents and budget tiers and became one of the pandemic-era\u2019s most scrutinised studio releases. Most recently she helmed the Jennifer Lopez<\/a> thriller The Mother<\/a> (2023) for Netflix<\/a>, a hit for the streamer.<\/p>\n This year she steps into a different spotlight: Heading the main jury at the Camerimage Film Festival in Toru\u0144, Poland, the industry\u2019s most influential event dedicated to cinematography. It is a conspicuous appointment, coming a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For more than two decades, New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro has built a career that has swung between breakout indie success and the upper echelons of studio filmmaking. She first drew international attention with Whale Rider, a small, community-rooted drama that became a global phenomenon and earned Keisha Castle-Hughes an Oscar nomination. Caro followed with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2166924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Niki-Caro-Confronts-Hollywoods-Backslide-on-Women-Behind-the-Camera.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166926,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166924\/revisions\/2166926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}